The Roaring Twenties ch.24 sec.4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Charles Lindbergh | became the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927 |
| Ninteenth Ammendment | established in 1920 guaranteed women in all states the right to vote |
| flappers | carefree young women with short "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts |
| mass media | forms of communication, such as newspapers and radio, that reach millions of people |
| Holywood, California | the motion picture industry here became one of the country's leading businesses |
| Babe Ruth | great outfielder who hit 60 home runs in 1927 |
| Jazz Age | the 1920s were often refered to as this |
| improvisation | new rhythms and melodies created during a performance |
| Louis Armstrong | african american trumpeter |
| Duke Ellington | african american pianist and composer. |
| Bessie Smith | african singer |
| Langston Hughes | an African American poetry writer |
| Harlem | an African American section of New York City |
| Harlem Renaissance | this movement instilled an intrest in African American culture and pride in being African American |
| expatriates | people who choose to live in another country |
| Gertrude Stein | writer who called these rootless americans "the lost generation" |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | novelist who joined the expatriates in Europe and wrote Tender is the Night |
| Ernest Hemingway | famous American expatriate novelist whose books The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms reflected the mood of Americans in postwar Europe |
| Sinclair Lewis | novelist presented a critical view of American culture in books such as Main Street and Babbitt |
| Sherwood Anderson | another influential American writer whose most famous book, Winesburg,Ohio, explores small town life in the Midwest |
| Eighteenth Ammendment | this ammendment established prohibition |
| prohibition | the total ban oon the manufacture, sale and transportation of liquor throughout the United States |
| Volstead Act | provided the means of enforcing the ban of alcohol |
| bootlegging | making and selling illegal alcohol |
| 21st Ammendment | 1933 ammendment that stated that prohibition was repealed |
| nativism | the belief that native born Americans are superior foriegners |
| Ku Klux Klan | came back for the third time and were even larger |
| Emergency Quota Act | Congress passed it in 1921 which responded to nativist fears |
| quota system | an arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country |
| The National Origins Act | reduced the annual country quota from 3-2 percent |
| evolution | the scientific theory that humans evolved over vast periods of time |
| Scopes trial | more than a hundred journalists from around the country came to report on this trial |
| William Jennings Bryan | Democratic candidate for president in 1896,1900, and 1908 and a strong opponent of evolution, led the prosecution |
| Clarence Darrow | defended many radicals and labor union members, spoke for Scopes |
| Herbert Hoover | declared his candidacy for 1928 Republican nomination |
| Alfred E. Smith | Democrats chose him for 1928 Democratic candidate |
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